Introduction
Malu A. C. Gatto is Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London (UCL). Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Gatto's work explores questions about women's political representation and participation, gendered political behavior and policy-making with a regional focus on Latin America, especially Brazil. Her academic research has been published in the JPLA and PS. She has also provided analysis on Brazilian politics and women's political representation for, among others, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, and El País. She holds a BA from Barnard College (2011), and an MSc (2012) and DPhil (2016) from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
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Malu A. C. Gatto is Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics at the Institute of the Americas at University College London (UCL). Previously, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Gatto's work explores questions about women's political representation and participation, gendered political behavior and policy-making with a regional focus on Latin America, especially Brazil. Her academic research has been published in the JPLA and PS. She has also provided analysis on Brazilian politics and women's political representation for, among others, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, and El País. She holds a BA from Barnard College (2011), and an MSc (2012) and DPhil (2016) from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Participation, Policy design and delivery